User mounting of removable devices on freeBSD 5.3 (supercedes CAIA-TR-041130A)
Jason But · Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology) · 2005
FreeBSD is a UNIX oriented operating system which is also the default desktop Operating System (OS) for many at the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA). While documentation for FreeBSD, its usage and configuration is plentiful and generally complete, it is often scattered and difficult to apply to generic desktop situations. This lack of straight forward HOW-TO documentation, either within the official documentation or associated web-sites located through the use of Google is often frustrating. The topic of this article, allowing general users (non-root) to mount and unmount removable filesystems (such as the Floppy Drive, CDROM or a USB Memory Stick) is one such issue. While all the information contained within this article is available online, it is often spread around numerous web-pages, and written in a way that makes it difficult to implement.